How to improve your resume: 6 steps to beef up your CV.

When creating a chronology of your employment, try to organize it in such a way that the most recent experience is at the top. This might seem counterintuitive because we all like to start at the beginning in order to give a complete picture of our employment story, but employers are most interested in the last thing you did.

That doesn’t mean they won’t read the rest or that they won’t think of it chronologically. It just means that you need to put the most relevant and important information at the top to make the whole read easier.  

We already talked about how readability is paramount in knowing how to improve your CV. That’s why you need to make sure that your resume stands out and that the most important information is clear and easy to find. This will not only give the reader an idea of what is important but also draw and guide their attention quickly and efficiently. This makes your resume easy to reread and to know or remember anything important about you at a glance. 

To do this, you should consider highlighting key points or skills by bolding, underlining, or italicizing them. Apart from that, you can also have an “At a glance” section which saves the recruiters time and show that you know how to recognize what is important enough to highlight it.

When you’re finished with writing your resume, please proofread it. There’s nothing that shows that you’re not the right candidate for the position, any position, like not taking a couple of minutes extra to proofread what you’ve written.

While a CV without errors might not get you extra points, one with errors will definitely net you negative ones. This automatically shows that you’re not detail oriented and that you allow oversights to happen in important matters. Our advice? Proofread it immediately and then do it again. A good way to make sure you’ve covered all bases is having someone else proofread your text or use one of the many proofreading tools available. Why? Because it’s easy to accidentally glance over mistakes in your own text while to others they will stick out like a sore thumb.